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On the bed, in a negligent attitude, sat Pierrette Tortureux, the official torturer.
On the bed, in a negligent attitude, sat Pierrat Torterue, the official torturer.
Torturer of death's construction.
One isn't acquiring a friend, more an unwitting torturer.